hongkongwargamer
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The Truth About VASL .. a new blog post
The Truth About VASL
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sunoftzu
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VASL is a treasure all right.
In addition to my online use, I also use it to make maps to print for FtF games with terrain changes....
…. such as yesterday, for example.
http://twasler.666forum.com/t53-asl-100-regalbuto-ridge-john-vs-little-wolf#80
In addition to my online use, I also use it to make maps to print for FtF games with terrain changes....
…. such as yesterday, for example.
http://twasler.666forum.com/t53-asl-100-regalbuto-ridge-john-vs-little-wolf#80
hongkongwargamer
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Thanks buddy!! Vinny posted it on FB for me as I abandoned the platform to Russian bots over a year ago.
Glad to see that you got a bit of play at the Hallowed Ground tourney as well. Hope all's well. Rgds Jack
Sparafucil3
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I have done the same. I have the same rules for these boards I do for the enlarged maps: we play the board we're playing on. If I can now bypass or see something I wouldn't normally be able to see (or you can for that matter), so be it. It's the cost of playing on the bigger board. I can't be bothered to set up a second playing area for LOS checks and bypass checks. Life is too short.
-- jim
Tuomo
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Total hogswallop. VASL was the misbegotten progeny of one of RK's week-long benders, aka "experiments on the boundaries of human consciousness, with hash", conducted during his infamous Third Blue Period, much of which was chronicled in the daily log of the El Paso Police Department. It is maintained not as a labor of love, but under the shady auspices of various "personal services contracts" held by KinneyCo Worldwide Enterprises, LLC, against the sodden and disreputable lot dredged from the worst back alley beer halls and cantinas of the world, and variously known to the naive and gullible public as The VASL Cabal. International police, military, and crime syndicates have at various times tried to infiltrate this murky construct of human misery, only to lose contact with their best agents, aside from unreliable reports of zombie-like doppelgangers seen staring into their drinks in the far corners of the third world.
Tuomo
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Furthermore.
Any positive value incurred by engaging in "the VASL Experience", a phrase redolent of other patent falsehoods like "the unsinkable Titanic", "we'll have to redesign cities for the Segway", or "Compassionate Conservatism", is not only unintended but is borne of the purest chance, the flightiest fancy, the most nebulous ghost of a whisper of a possibility, on the order of the cross-section of a neutrino's interaction with papier mache.
Therefore, positive feedback in this regard is not only unwarranted, but given the uber-nefariousness of said VASL Cabal, likely to prolong the misery of its denizens laboring in the dank sub-sub-basements of its Neo-Brutalist-architected lair.
Any positive value incurred by engaging in "the VASL Experience", a phrase redolent of other patent falsehoods like "the unsinkable Titanic", "we'll have to redesign cities for the Segway", or "Compassionate Conservatism", is not only unintended but is borne of the purest chance, the flightiest fancy, the most nebulous ghost of a whisper of a possibility, on the order of the cross-section of a neutrino's interaction with papier mache.
Therefore, positive feedback in this regard is not only unwarranted, but given the uber-nefariousness of said VASL Cabal, likely to prolong the misery of its denizens laboring in the dank sub-sub-basements of its Neo-Brutalist-architected lair.
Tom Morin
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The Dice-bot is the Devil's child..........
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VASL is a tool
DON!!!!VASL is a tool
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You can't keep a good man down.
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Truth. Battlin' Buckeyes is a great scenario but it is damn near un-playable on a stock board without the hills removed.
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High fellows
Tuomo
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OK, a serious comment on Jackson's post.
I appreciate the sentiment, but the unhappy truth is that we (the VASL Cabal) don't do a good job of training people to help. That is partly (wholly?) my fault. New volunteers need really good documentation, hands-on training time with experienced folk, and relevant tasks to develop their skills with. The Ye Olde Booke, while tremendous fun, is aged in several ways. Relevant tasks (ie, working on the boards, counters, or extensions for new products) don't seem to be a problem. But the biggest thing is hands-on training time, which I just haven't made since I went to Emeritus status several years ago and concentrated on doing printable maps in Illustrator. BigAl can speak for himself, and perhaps he's a lot better at that than I am, but it's an understandable problem - you only have a certain amount of time to do VASL stuff, and when you're training others, you're not getting VASL stuff done. Yes, of course, the goal of training others is to eventually have them take over doing VASL stuff for you, but that's an investment in an uncertain outcome.
And make no mistake, being a long-term contributor to VASL requires a lot of time and, as Carl Nogueira once said, the ability to deal with a lot of tedium. Every pixel has to be right. For some (who probably skew somewhere uncomfortable on the autism spectrum ), that's not a problem, and it's tremendously satisfying to see VASL things work and wonderfully gratifying to receive the appreciation of the community. You folks have always been appreciative and that's friggin' awesome. Let me give a shout-out to Federico Kors, who's made some great contributions on the coding side as well.
So. I don't know what the answer is, but I wanted to comment on the situation because no, it's not what we wish it would be. I apologize to Spencer and Jackson for not engaging with their honest and sincere desire to help, and I'm sure there are others who just haven't gotten the training they need to help. Those are well-intended offers on their part to contribute to the community, and it stinks if we can't utilize that. At the same time, I'm largely/mostly retired from VASL, and I've earned the right to spend my ASL time however I want.
It would be easy to say, "you can help by contributing money", but that's not the model VASL works on, for good reasons, and was never the reason for Rodney Kinney developing VASL in the first place.
I appreciate the sentiment, but the unhappy truth is that we (the VASL Cabal) don't do a good job of training people to help. That is partly (wholly?) my fault. New volunteers need really good documentation, hands-on training time with experienced folk, and relevant tasks to develop their skills with. The Ye Olde Booke, while tremendous fun, is aged in several ways. Relevant tasks (ie, working on the boards, counters, or extensions for new products) don't seem to be a problem. But the biggest thing is hands-on training time, which I just haven't made since I went to Emeritus status several years ago and concentrated on doing printable maps in Illustrator. BigAl can speak for himself, and perhaps he's a lot better at that than I am, but it's an understandable problem - you only have a certain amount of time to do VASL stuff, and when you're training others, you're not getting VASL stuff done. Yes, of course, the goal of training others is to eventually have them take over doing VASL stuff for you, but that's an investment in an uncertain outcome.
And make no mistake, being a long-term contributor to VASL requires a lot of time and, as Carl Nogueira once said, the ability to deal with a lot of tedium
. Every pixel has to be right. For some (who probably skew somewhere uncomfortable on the autism spectrum ), that's not a problem, and it's tremendously satisfying to see VASL things work and wonderfully gratifying to receive the appreciation of the community. You folks have always been appreciative and that's friggin' awesome. Let me give a shout-out to Federico Kors, who's made some great contributions on the coding side as well.So. I don't know what the answer is, but I wanted to comment on the situation because no, it's not what we wish it would be. I apologize to Spencer and Jackson for not engaging with their honest and sincere desire to help, and I'm sure there are others who just haven't gotten the training they need to help. Those are well-intended offers on their part to contribute to the community, and it stinks if we can't utilize that. At the same time, I'm largely/mostly retired from VASL, and I've earned the right to spend my ASL time however I want.
It would be easy to say, "you can help by contributing money", but that's not the model VASL works on, for good reasons, and was never the reason for Rodney Kinney developing VASL in the first place.
Hey Don - are you, like, really back?High fellows
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Define back?
Lurking for now, did do a setup of the French for DFTB Brasche #1 on VASL, all my kit is in storage. I used to have access to an online html version of the rules but no idea where that is at now. I do have some pdf's of the rules sort of.
Been playing a lot of SPWW2 (I have converted back in 2005 or 2007? 20 ASL scenarios to that), just recently I did 40 Panzer scenario conversions to it, and another 20 ASL ones, but now I am getting off topic, back to VASL...
So sort of ?
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And some have even given their carpal tunnels and forearm tendons in service of the Cabal.
Tuomo
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Ladies and Gentlemen: Gordon Molek.
If you play VASL, you owe Gordon a beer. Dude churned out counters like nobody's business. And other stuff. It was hard to keep up with him.
Tuomo
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Hm. Well, people owe you beers anyway. And don't ask what happened to Stupid Road Tricks